I Aggressively Stack Steel of the Heart in the Knight Order

A straight-line distance of over ten thousand kilometers. This was a terrifying span, enough to cross an entire continental plate.

Koller, Lu Jia...

Cold rain beat down on Reinhardt’s Power Armor. He slowly clenched his right fist and took a deep breath.

At that very moment, a faint, sharp pain pricked Reinhardt’s spine without any warning. He could clearly feel something spreading and growing within his spinal column.

The Second Earth Ring·Mimic Evolution Tree.

’Is it evolving again?’

Unlike his Knight Power, which required a strong Physique and constant battle to improve, the method of advancement for his Second Earth Ring was largely beyond his control.

But in exchange, the Second Earth Ring was one of his Earth Powers that had awakened the most Special Abilities and offered the highest quality of improvement.

’Could it be a new Special Ability?’

’No...’

Within Reinhardt’s perception, he could clearly see a living, dark purple, tree-like structure begin as a sapling and then blossom magnificently within his Spiritual Domain.

It continued until the dark purple, tree-like structure finally transformed into a colossal network of vines that covered his entire Spiritual World.

And at that very moment, the intensity of Reinhardt’s aura began to climb steadily from his foundation as a Five-star Earth Military Rank. It continued to rise until it reached an indescribable critical point, only then did it level off.

And that critical point... was the chasm that separated him from the Six-star Earth Military Rank.

Without a doubt, Reinhardt’s current strength had reached the peak of the Five-star Earth Military Rank!

Far surpassing a newly-ascended Domain Powerhouse.

Moreover, after his battles with Sipia and Atlas, this was the first time his power had advanced during combat without needing Steel of the Heart to raise his physical limits!

This was because the network of purple vines that appeared in his Spiritual Domain wasn’t a Special Ability at all, but a self-awakened Domain Power. The process felt as natural as a wound healing, a fundamental instinct of life itself.

The instant his Second Domain Power awakened, Reinhardt had already mastered it completely!

Second Domain·Bionic Mimicry.

Its ability was also completely different from the power-up method of his First Domain·Great Annihilation, which was pure stat-stacking. Or rather, Bionic Mimicry possessed no power on its own. However, after using the ability of his Second Domain, Reinhardt could imitate the Combat Techniques and Special Abilities of any enemy.

In actual combat, this ability could fail to produce the expected level of fighting power due to a lack of proficiency with the copied Combat Techniques and Special Abilities.

At first glance, it seemed useless.

However, once an enemy was affected by the Domain of Bionic Mimicry, Reinhardt could grasp a massive amount of intelligence in the shortest possible time and formulate a countermeasure at once.

Furthermore, this mimicry was not a one-time use. If applied properly, Reinhardt could use the ability to learn and master his enemies’ fighting techniques and combat wisdom.

In other words, compared to the ”brute force” approach of his First Domain·Great Annihilation, the Second Domain·Bionic Mimicry was a Domain Power with an extremely wide gap between its potential upper and lower limits of combat effectiveness. It required superb combat intelligence to be applied flexibly.

The increase in strength felt like a long process within Reinhardt’s perception, but in the real world, it took no more than two seconds.

Some Mortals with Knight Talent vaguely sensed something, but it was like a fleeting hallucination, gone in an instant.

For they did not know it was no hallucination, but the aura of Mighty Power that overflowed when Reinhardt’s strength surged once more!

When it was all over, Reinhardt looked down at Atlas’s body and considered for a moment. If this truly was a War Armament secretly developed by Grand Lord Kles, then as the Great Tutor of Vengeful, he had a responsibility to bring it back to the Administrative Region and hand it over to the Mechanist Cult for processing.

In other words, an arms race between the Administrative Region and the Bator World had already begun in secret.

Just as he grabbed Atlas’s headless corpse and leaped from the ruins, the body—which should have been completely dead—suddenly began to change!